Overclocking Poll

[{Sniping}Waste]

I did have a 1800+ AXP on dry ice at 2.8gig at -20C that had some WR for 3 months. The last high OC setup I used was a 3000+ S754 A64 with a Asrock SIS 755 chipset. Hardware modded the mobo to bypass the memory voltage reg to the dimm slots were being feed 3.3V direct form the PSU and uped the Vcore to 1.9V on my NC 3000+. The 3000+ did 2.8V on dry ice and 2.55 on air. I still have 3rd place with this system with a 9800SE in 3D mark 2001 at XtremeSystems and that was all air too. The 2 above me used dry ice and LN2.

 

[Gnerma]

I've been a big overclocker for years. I'm running my Opteron 165 at 2.7 ghz which is a 50% overclock. My X1900XT 256 runs at 702/783 when gaming. Both are watercooled, and run around 40c full load. The system is decently quiet. I run 3 x 120mm fans (2 on the rad & one up front) at 5v.

 

[micron]

Athlon 64 3000+ 1.8Ghz @2.67Ghz
X1900GT 575/1200 @720/1665 1.5v
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=2335054

 

[Sobek]

Definitely need an additional poll option between the top two..something like 'Moderately overclocked'...you know, not within an inch of its life, but also not close to stock.

I had a A64 3200+ running at 2.65ghz before switching to this 4600+ X2 which is sitting happily at 2.88ghz. A lot of people said it's a freak core, as all I did to get it to 2.88 was bump the fsb up to 240mhz (no divider), and add 0.5v to the CPU. Rock solid, not one crash since day one. I know it's got way more room to play with, but my memory is holding me back, so once I upgrade that I might give it a bit more juice (3gb ddr400 comprised of 2 1gb sticks of Corsair value select and 2 512mb sticks of the same stuff. 2t timings, but a 240mhz with no divider or voltage change is nothing to scoff at :smile: )

Can anyone actually edit the poll?

 

[micron]

I had a A64 3200+ running at 2.65ghz before switching to this 4600+ X2 which is sitting happily at 2.88ghz.

I've been contemplating upgrading my 3000+ to an X2 4600+, but wasn't sure if the performance gains would be worthwhile considering I'm at 2.66Ghz already

 

[_xxx_]

All stock, never oc'ed anything besides my old Slot1 Celeron back then (from 266 to 400+ MHz on passive cooling).

 

[tongue_of_colicab]

I dont have my pc oced because its fast enough (3500+, 1gb, x800xt-pe). for what I do with it. My older pc wich I gave to my brothers is oced though. Its already 3 years old and my 2500+ has been running @ 3200+ all the time without any problemns I even oced it to 2,5Ghz with just aircooling once

 

[Blazkowicz]

my XP 2400+ o/c like crap, so I don't o/c it, and same for my video card.

 

[tongue_of_colicab]

My old 9600xt actually is the second fasted 9600xt on futuremark it went over 600Mhz with the crappy stock cooler. And ive got my x800pro vivo flashed to xt-pe but not oced.

 

[[maven]]

My system is fast enough as it is. And even if I wanted to, I wouldn't even be sure how to go about it (Mac Pro 2.66Ghz w/ ATI 1900XT).

 

[Sobek]

I've been contemplating upgrading my 3000+ to an X2 4600+, but wasn't sure if the performance gains would be worthwhile considering I'm at 2.66Ghz already

To be honest I wasn't expecting much either, but I really wanted to move to dual core and i'm not too fond of Intel (Conroe vs current A64's is a joke of an argument), so I went with the best x2 I could get my hands on (hell, I was locked into getting the 4600+, everything else was gone).

I can definitely say it was worth it, normally it'd take my system about 10-15 seconds to go from login screen to fully booted, with this X2 in and overclocked, that's down to about 2-3 seconds, no shit. Games (even those that don't support dual core) are performing surprisingly better than I thought they would.

Anyway, my 2 cents, i'm loving it.